How much VideoMemory do I have?

Cr0t · l33t Joined: 27 Apr 2002 Posts: 944 Location: USA

Let's get to the bottom of the issue pretty quick. I have some older systems and I want to know how much memory I have on the card.

The thing is I could do...

stig · Posted: Mon Jul 19, 2004 7:40 pm Post subject:

The older system of which you speak, are there integrated graphics cards, or PCI/ISA cards?
In the latter case, it's usually stated in a flash right before the bios on the mother board takes control. If the video card is integrated on the mother board i guess you shuold take a look in the bios.
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!db! · Posted: Mon Jul 19, 2004 8:32 pm Post subject:

A few possibilities ..
1. In my case, upper left hand corner of the screen before BIOS kicks in (like stig suggests);
2. My BIOS settings (like stig suggests);
3. 'lspci -v' ... (if PCI) ... in my case, it ID's the video card, but doesn't show actual video memory ... it's the case for others though;
4. 'dmesg' ... in my case, ID's the card, but gives no memory info;
5. if you have mtrr support, 'cat /proc/mtrr' should give you something ... might be rubbish if framebuffer devices reset values though.

Good luck!

Cr0t · l33t Joined: 27 Apr 2002 Posts: 944 Location: USA

I know you guys want to help, but I was more looking for an Linux integrated command... everything what you just said happens outside linux.
lspci and dmesg just tells you, YES you have a S3 Video card, but does NOT tell you how much mem you actually got!
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!db! · Posted: Tue Jul 20, 2004 2:06 am Post subject:

stig · Posted: Tue Jul 20, 2004 1:53 pm Post subject:

Well... The obvious way is to rip the case appart, and count the memory chips. But I guess you also would call this an "outside linux" approach

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Cr0t · l33t Joined: 27 Apr 2002 Posts: 944 Location: USA